Online Business Workshop

In case you are free next Wednesday morning, the Chamber of Commerce will host a workshop on starting a business online and the risk therein:

Business leaders can learn the risks of taking business online during the next Carbondale Chamber of Commerce’s Business Builders Breakfast, set for 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 19.

The hour-long workshop will be led by Karen Cripps of The Insurance House, an area independent insurance agency. Cripps presentation will focus on how taking a business online opens up potential risks, including many that business leaders may not have considered or even been aware of before establishing an online presence.

The workshop will be at the Illinois Small Business Development Center located within the Southern Illinois Research Park, 1740 Innovation Drive in Carbondale. Each Business Builders Breakfast session is open to both Chamber members as well as others in the community. The cost of each session is $5 for members who RSVP or $7 for members at the door or non-Chamber members.

Business Builders Breakfasts is a series of informal, casual workshops on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Each event features a modest continental breakfast, coffee and juice as well as lessons from area experts. The series a program of the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and co-sponsored by The Illinois Small Business Development Center/International Trade Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

                For more information and to make reservations, business leaders may call the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce at (618) 549-2146.